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I’m an ambitious Gen Z who’s been told to slow down. How can I get the advancement I want?Content from The Globe’s weekly Women and Work newsletter, part of The Globe’s Women’s Collective. To subscribe, clickQuestion: I’m a woman in my 20s and I’m very ambitious. I’m eager to advance at my workplace and take on more responsibility, but I have been told to slow down by my superiors.
There are some other things you can do to boost your chances of advancement. In my own experience, I’ve found that saying yes, putting my hand up and taking opportunities for new projects has shown success for me. It has shown my managers that I am eager to learn and curious to understand other parts of the business.
If you’ve been in your current position long enough and you’ve exhausted all your options and everyone’s telling you, ‘You’re doing a great job,’ but there’s still no career advancement happening, that is probably your cue to look elsewhere. If you see peers advancing and you’re not, that would be another cue. It’s a tough call, but these can be indications that it’s not the right place for you to get the advancement you want.
“As a journalism instructor I encourage all my students to set up a LinkedIn account and instead of handing out business cards at industry events, offer to connect with people on the platform. She tightened the weekly meetings by taking the decisions out of them, instead identifying during the session a few vital ones that would be tackled later in the week.“Failure is human. It’s not fatal,” says Chenai Kadungure, executive director of the Black Physicians’ Association of Ontario. “It’s also a part of learning, so we need to flip the way we view it. The avoidance of failure, or that obsession with perfection, is usually what gets us into trouble. There has to be self-forgiveness.
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